During flight quarters one day, close to southern Japan, when we were waiting
for the planes to return, the man overboard horn blew and the ship made a
tight turn. As I was on duty and my man overboard station was at the small
boat launching site, I was there when they returned and asked for a stokes
stretcher, the kind made of chicken wire. When the boat returned again,
they had a body of a Japanese man. The body was placed into a body bag and
the helo flew it to the nearest police station. Weeks later, the captain
received a letter from a Japanese lady who thanked him for returning her
husband to the land. He had been lost overboard from a fishing boat months
before.